Education

PhD, University of Toronto

MA, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

BA (Honors), University of Western Ontario

Research and Expertise

Middle East and Islamic affairs, religion and democracy, secularism, comparative politics and political theory, politics of the Middle East, democracy and human rights, Islam-West relations, religion and international affairs.

Professional Profile

Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (2013-present) Director, Center for Middle East Studies (2012-present); Assistant Professor (2008-2012)

Research Affiliate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (2005-2006)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto (2004-2005); Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (2003-2004)

Recent Publications

Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (London: Hurst Publishers, 2016; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), edited with Danny Postel.

Nader Hashemi, "Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and the Secularization from Below in Iran," in Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar eds., A Secular Age Beyond the West (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Nader Hashemi, "The ISIS Crisis and the 'Broken Politics' of the Middle East: A Framework for Understanding Radical Islamism," in Anthony T. Chase ed., Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Nader Hashemi, "Toward a Political Theory of Sectarianism in the Middle East: The Salience of Authoritarianism over Theology," Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 1 (September 2016).

Nader Hashemi, "How the Legacy of Authoritarianism in the Arab World Contributed to the Rise of ISIS," Turkish Review 6 (September 2016).

Courses

INTS 3020/4907: Introduction to Middle East and Islamic Politics

INTS 4540: Introduction to Political Theory

INTS 4525: Religion & State in Comparative Perspective

INTS 4526: Modern Islamic Political Thought

INTS 4534: Great Books on the Middle East

INTS 4639: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran